Data Backup and Data Protection
Read news, tips and advice on current trends in data backup and data protection for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs), consultants and other storage channel professionals. You'll find expert advice on developing a data backup strategy, forming data disaster recovery plans, maintaining business continuity, delivering data backup and data protection services and solutions, and supporting disk backup and tape backup systems. More about Data Backup and Data Protection
Data Storage Hardware
Get news, advice and tutorials on data storage hardware basics for storage service providers, consultants and value-added resellers (VARs) offering clients data storage systems and storage boxes. You'll find information on technologies including disk drives and arrays, tape drives and tape libraries, virtual tape libraries, storage blades, network storage hardware, data storage facility planning and other hardware solutions for archived data. More about Data Storage Hardware
Data Storage Management
This topic outlines data storage management news, tips and best practices for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators and consultants helping customers manage data storage systems. Get expert advice and find business opportunities around data archiving, data configuration, data migration, data monitoring and reporting, data provisioning, data lifecycle management, hierarchical storage management (HSM), storage performance and capacity planning, tiered storage, online storage services and data storage management services. More about Data Storage Management
MSPs/Storage as a Service
The Managed Service Providers (MSPs)/Storage as a Service topics page provides news articles, tips and tutorials for data storage MSPs who provide data storage services, including online backup services, online file backup operations, secure offsite data storage and cloud storage services, to their IT organization customers. Look here for guidance on storage as a service topics such as managed backup services for SMBs, the pros and cons of different hosting approaches, steps to delivering a cloud storage services offering, developing online backup services, and more. More about MSPs/Storage as a Service
Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
This topic covers network-attached storage (NAS) news, tips and best practices for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators offering customers storage networking products and services. You'll find expert advice on selling and supporting network-attached storage solutions including NAS hardware, NAS backup, NAS IP storage, NAS clustering, NAS protocols, NAS management and other answers to network-attached storage questions. More about Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
Regulatory Compliance Services
Learn about regulatory compliance services and strategies for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and consultants helping customers meet compliance requirements. This topic includes news, tips, how-tos and best practices to make sure your clients are compliant, including information on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) compliance, Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) guidelines, records retention, email archiving, data classification, e-discovery and other storage-focused regulatory compliance strategies and challenges. More about Regulatory Compliance Services
Remote Storage Management
Read remote storage management news, best practices and technical advice for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators helping customers remotely manage storage resources. This topic includes tips, how-tos and other information on remote backup services, remote replication, remote mirroring and remote storage monitoring technologies, as well as remote office and branch office (ROBO) stoage services and strategies, how to determine network latency, advantages of backing up data remotely, selling remote monitoring services, remote storage management pricing and more. More about Remote Storage Management
Storage Area Network (SAN)
This topic covers storage area network (SAN) architecture, design, planning and management news and advice for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs), consultants and systems integrators helping clients determine the advantages and disadvantages of SANs as well as plan and implement storage area networks. You'll find tips, tutorials and other information on SAN pros and cons, SAN design best practices, Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI SAN IP storage, SAN management software and services, SAN switches and components, SAN routing and partitioning, SAN security, SAN performance, storage networking protocols and other storage area networking answers. More about Storage Area Network (SAN)
Storage Service Provider Concerns
Read about storage service provider concerns including business opportunities and best practices for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs), storage consultants and systems integrators. This topic includes news, tips and other relevant information for service providers on storage vendor partner programs, storage certifications and training, data storage jobs and careers, storage pricing, RFPs (request for proposal) and RFIs (request for information), return on investment (ROI), storage integration services and other valuable advice to help resellers improve their data storage service offerings. More about Storage Service Provider Concerns
Storage Solution Provider Sales and Marketing
Read about sales and marketing issues for storage solution providers, including information about sales growth and effective online and event marketing for storage solution providers, value-added resellers (VARs), storage consultants and systems integrators. This topic includes news, tips and educational information for solution providers on marketing and selling technology products to IT organizations, plus other valuable advice to help resellers improve their data storage sales and marketing efforts. More about Storage Solution Provider Sales and Marketing
Storage Virtualization
Learn about storage virtualization with news, tutorials and expert advice for storage service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and IT consultants offering customers storage virtualization products and services. This topic covers tips and best practices as well as trends and forecasts in this growing technology market, including information on storage virtualization planning and management, storage service-oriented architecture (SOA), new products from virtualization vendors and everything else you need to know to help your clients make the move to virtualized storage. More about Storage Virtualization